NEW YORK | 247 Cherry Street | 1,013 FT | 77 FLOORS

[chris08876]

The real deal needs to stop photoshopping gale brewer into illustrations. I just had breakfast and its all over my keyboard. On the walls, on the floor, and everything. Even with heavy duty anti-nausea medication (the kind they give to elephants), Gale just makes the stuff come right out.

[Skyguy_7]

Haha. What she needs is to save the lip gloss for her personality and her politics. That grill is unsalvagable.

[chris08876]

Originally Posted by Skyguy_7

Haha. What she needs is to save the lip gloss for her personality and her politics. That grill is unsalvagable.

The lip gloss is made of the crud that line's a heavy smokers lips after months of buildup. DOT has a label for that



So if you find yourself under the mistletoe with her, you'll become a fatality. Stay safe out there! You'll be the guy seeing the sky real quick.

[NYguy]

http://www.thelodownny.com/leslog/20...s-forward.html

Local Groups Wait For Developers’ Next Move, as Campaign to Fight Waterfront Towers Inches Forward

By Ed Litvak
March 16, 2018

The environmental review for three mega-towers in the Two Bridges area is several months behind schedule, but most community activists aren’t complaining. The delay is giving them more time to mobilize against the controversial projects. That was one of the takeaways from a meeting of Community Board 3 held earlier this week.

JDS Development Group has proposed a 79-story tower at 247 Cherry St., next door to Extell Development’s 80-story luxury condo tower. L+M Development Partners and the CIM Group want to put up 62 ad 69 story towers at 260 South St. Meanwhile, the Starrett Group is planning a 62-story building at 259 Clinton St. Taken together, they would add 2,700 rental apartments in the area, 25% designated as affordable. The development teams are conducting a joint study to assess impacts of the huge projects on the Two Bridges neighborhood. A Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) was expected to be submitted to the Department of City Planning by December. But it has not yet been filed.

At CB3’s land use committee meeting on Wednesday evening, a representative from the Department of City Planning (DCP) called the delays fairly routine. Community board member Val Jones wanted to know what is taking the developers so long, and speculated that concerns expressed by residents at a series of public meetings held last year were being disregarded. Bob Tuttle, a city planner, said, “There’s a lot of work that (the developers are) doing right now, and (the Environmental Impact Statement) just isn’t ready.” He noted that all comments from the public must be specifically addressed once the official review process begins. Tuttle said he couldn’t say when the Draft EIS would be finished, but emphasized, “I don’t want you to think the process is broken because they haven’t talked to you.”

[chris08876]

The environmental review studies 18 categories, including infrastructure, schools, transportation, community facilities and neighborhood character. It also must include “strategies to mitigate” potential impacts of the development projects. The development teams and City Planning officials are going back and forth regarding those mitigations. While the developers have declined to comment, it’s not hard to imagine some of the local improvements they could be called on to fund.

Ughgh, nothing but wasting time these environmental reviews are. But these towers will rise, all of them, just gotta wait until the bureaucratic and regulatory nonsense clears way.

[antinimby]

^ And in the meantime, all this does is add to the cost of the project, which then gets passed onto the buyers, making the prices higher than it would have been. Contradicting the pandering politicians like Chin and Brewer’s claims that they are concerned about affordable housing and gentrification. They (Chin and Brewer) are exasperating the situation even more!

[toddguy]

Originally Posted by chris08876

The real deal needs to stop photoshopping gale brewer into illustrations. I just had breakfast and its all over my keyboard. On the walls, on the floor, and everything. Even with heavy duty anti-nausea medication (the kind they give to elephants), Gale just makes the stuff come right out.

I don't even live there and I despise that Gale Brewer. Nothing more than an insincere troublemaker.

And then the other one want's to fill in a street garden with an 8 floor building, but it opposed to these which bring in more units onto parking lots!!!


*ten years later and still have not forgotten Amanda Burden and the chop off the top of the Tower Verre.

[The Best Forumer]

They need to hurry up and build this thing.

[NYguy]

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[canucklehead2]

Good to hear because the design is amazing and most cities would kill for a project half as nice... And enough with the anti density NIMBY's in places like Manhattan. Don't like it? Move to Kansas... As long as there is proper transportation and services infrastructure, build it up as high as its economical...

[chris08876]

260 South (E/W) tower(s) are a good balance. Somewhat will lessen the effect of its surrounding, taller neighbors appearing as "highly" dominant. Hopefully inland, we will see some more towers to aesthetically balance it. The LES "future" skyline that is.

[NYguy]

More docs...
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/a...o-bridges.page

[NYguy]

http://www.thelodownny.com/leslog/20...-approval.html

Outrage in Two Bridges: Monday Rally to Protest Looming Mega-Tower Approval





By Ed Litvak
June 21, 2018

Local activists and elected officials are fuming today over a decision to release the Two Bridges Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) just as Community Board 3 is going on hiatus for the summer.

The City Planning Commission cannot approve three large-scale residential projects along the Lower East Side waterfront until the environmental review is completed. After months of delays, the city plans to certify the Draft EIS at its Monday meeting. CB3 must weigh in on the environmental review within 60 days. Under normal circumstances, CB3’s land use committee would have reviewed the applications in July and then scheduled a vote the following month. But since it doesn’t meet in August, the review and vote will all take place in July, with just over two weeks to get a handle on the Draft EIS.

Local residents, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and City Council member Margaret Chin have been fighting the proposed towers, which range in height from 62-79 stories.

Chin is organizing a rally on Monday to pressure the Department of City Planning to give the community more time to pour over thousands of pages of documents from the development teams. She’s expected to ask the agency to delay the release of the Draft EIS until September

The proposals under review include a 79-story tower at 247 Cherry St. from JDS Development Group; 62 and 69 story towers at 260 South St. by L+M Development Partners and the CIM Group; and a 62-story tower at 259 Clinton St. from the Starrett Group. In all of the projects, 75% of the rentals would be market rate, 25% would be designated affordable.

The Department of City Planning determined that the massive proposed towers amounted to a “minor modification” of the Two Bridges Large-Scale Residential Plan, meaning the city was authorized to approve the towers unilaterally. In January, Chin and Brewer filed an application for a zoning text amendment to force the projects to go through the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP). This would mean more robust roles for the community board and borough president, and would subject the plans to City Council approval.

The city required Chin and Brewer to conduct a separate Environmental Assessment Statement (EAS) before advancing the text amendment. That assessment is now taking place, after the City Council allocated funds for the environmental review. Council land use staff members are, however, fighting the clock, since the developers’ proposals are headed for a vote at the City Planning Commission in the fall.

The rally on Monday will be held at 11:30 a.m. at Rutgers Slip and South Street. Participants will march to 22 Reade St., where the Department of City Planning will hold its review session.

[Hudson11]

time to organize and participate in a protest but no time to read the DEIS over the course of 2 weeks.

[yankeesfan1000]

So their argument boils down to literally having all of August off...? Cry. Me. A. River.

[NYguy]

My favorite photo of Gale Brewer...

"How dare you, how DARE you come to us with this proposal ?!!!"



https://therealdeal.com/2018/06/26/c...rs-is-delayed/

City Planning’s review of Two Bridges resi towers will take place in October
Critics have argued the process has been rushed






June 26, 2018

The clock is ticking on the city’s review of a trio of large residential towers in Lower Manhattan’s Two Bridges neighborhood.

On Monday, a City Planning Commission committee certified the application submitted by developers that would create over 2,700 housing units, but also moved the review process to the fall.

Ryan Singer, senior director of Land Use Review & Commission Operations, said a 60-day referral period would set the public hearing to Sept. 5 — but the body wouldn’t be able to hold a hearing until mid-October due to a packed schedule.

A spokesperson for the developers told Politico they wanted the hearing be pushed back to allow more time to “formulate its recommendations.”

[NYguy]

https://ny.curbed.com/2018/6/25/1750...ower-east-side

[NYguy]

https://www.boweryboogie.com/2018/07...r-two-bridges/

Here’s Your Chance to Voice Opposition to the 3 Supertalls Planned for Two Bridges


July 31st, 2018
by Elie

The city almost pulled a fast one last month by dropping the Draft Environmental Impact Statement regarding three incoming supertall towers just as Community Board 3 was headed for summer recess. Pushback from politicians and the waterfront neighborhood, plus coverage in the press, helped push back the deadline.

The advisory body has sixty days to review and vote on the documents, but the clock now starts a couple months on. Indeed, the public meeting is rescheduled for October 17.

As part of this review process, CB3 implores Lower East Siders to turn out and opine on the proposed towers on August 14 (6:40, 100 Hester). There are three in the works – JDS Development (1,000 feet), Starrett Corp. (724 feet), and CIM/L+M (800-feet) are each planning as-of-right developments in the backyard of a low-income neighborhood.

The applications for three tower proposals on the Two Bridges waterfront have been referred to CB 3 for review. CB 3’s recommendations will be presented to the City Planning Commission before they vote on the proposals.

We want to hear from community members before making recommendations on the tower proposals!

http://www.cb3manhattan.org/

[antinimby]

We want to hear from community members before making recommendations on the tower proposals!

They don't really want to just hear from community members. They only want to hear from the people that will echo their anti-development agenda. I am almost certain there are plenty of local residents that support these towers but that's not the type of people they want to hear from.

[DCReid]

Originally Posted by antinimby

They don't really want to just hear from community members. They only want to hear from the people that will echo their anti-development agenda. I am almost certain there are plenty of local residents that support these towers but that's not the type of people they want to hear from.

A little to late in my opinion. They should have gone all out to stop the first megatower near the bridge. I kind of agree with the community members that those developments were too tall for that neighborhood. They stick out like a sore thumb.